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This paper considers distributed computing on an anonymous quantum network, a network in which no party has a unique identifier and quantum communication and computation are available. It is proved that the leader election problem can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Hirotada Kobayashi , Keiji Matsumoto , Seiichiro Tani

We propose a secure voting protocol for score-based voting rules, where independent talliers perform the tallying procedure. The protocol outputs the winning candidate(s) while preserving the privacy of the voters and the secrecy of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Lihi Dery , Tamir Tassa , Avishay Yanai

We propose a protocol for anonymous distribution of quantum information which can be used in two modifications. In the first modification the receiver of the message is publicly known, but the sender remains unknown (even to receiver). In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Bouda , Josef Sprojcar

A simple and practical method for achieving everlasting privacy in e-voting systems, without relying on advanced cryptographic techniques, is to use anonymous voter credentials. The simplicity of this approach may, however, create some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tomasz Truderung

We propose a simple quantum voting machine using microwave photon qubit encoding, based on a setup comprising multiple microwave cavities and a coupled superconducting flux qutrit. This approach primarily relies on a multi-control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Yu Zhang , Chuiping Yang , Qiping Su , Yihao Kang , Wen Zheng , Shaoxiong Li , Yang Yu

We propose a set of protocols for quantum anonymous veto (QAV) broadly categorized under the probabilistic, iterative, and deterministic schemes. The schemes are based upon different types of quantum resources. Specifically, they may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Sandeep Mishra , Kishore Thapliyal , Abhishek Parakh , Anirban Pathak

Studying the computational complexity and designing fast algorithms for determining winners under voting rules are classical and fundamental questions in computational social choice. In this paper, we accelerate voting by leveraging quantum…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ao Liu , Qishen Han , Lirong Xia , Nengkun Yu

A boardroom election is an election with a small number of voters carried out with public communications. We present BVOT, a self-tallying boardroom voting protocol with ballot secrecy, fairness (no tally information is available before the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Farid Javani , Alan T. Sherman

Quantum resources such as superposition and entanglement have been used to provide unconditional key distribution, secret sharing and communication complexity reduction. In this letter we present a novel quantum information protocol for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Alley Hameedi , Breno Marques , Sadiq Muhammad , Marcin Wiesniak , Mohamed Bourennane

Broadcasting information anonymously becomes more difficult as surveillance technology improves, but remarkably, quantum protocols exist that enable provably traceless broadcasting. The difficulty is making scalable entangled resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Nicolas C. Menicucci , Ben Q. Baragiola , Tommaso F. Demarie , Gavin K. Brennen

We reconsider and modify the second secure multi-party quantum addition protocol proposed in our original work. We show that the protocol is an anonymous multi-party quantum addition protocol rather than a secure multi-party quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Zhaoxu Ji , Peiru Fan , Atta Ur Rahman , Huanguo Zhang

Secure communication is one of the key applications of quantum networks. In recent years, following the demands for identity protection in classical communication protocols, the need for anonymity has also emerged for quantum networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-27 Christopher Thalacker , Frederik Hahn , Jarn de Jong , Anna Pappa , Stefanie Barz

We present the first protocol for the anonymous transmission of a quantum state that is information-theoretically secure against an active adversary, without any assumption on the number of corrupt participants. The anonymity of the sender…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Gilles Brassard , Anne Broadbent , Joseph Fitzsimons , Sebastien Gambs , Alain Tapp

In an electronic voting protocol, a distributed scheme can be used for forbidding the malicious acts of the voting administrator and the counter during the election, but it cannot prevent them from collaborating to trace the ballots and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Rui-Rui Zhou , Li Yang

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and information-theoretic correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt voters or voting authorities. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp

One of the applications of quantum technology is to use quantum states and measurements to communicate which offers more reliable security promises. Quantum data hiding, which gives the source party the ability of sharing data among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Xingyao Wu , Jianxin Chen

By sending systems in specially prepared quantum states, two parties can communicate without an eavesdropper being able to listen. The technique, called quantum cryptography, enables one to verify that the state of the quantum system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karol Horodecki , Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Debbie Leung , Jonathan Oppenheim

In this paper we explore a method to create anonymous services on top of the STORK framework, to be used for electronic surveys or elections. The STORK project aims to realize a single electronic identification and authentication area…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Alessandro Preziosi , Diana Berbecaru

Ensuring ballot secrecy is critical for fair and trustworthy electronic voting systems, yet achieving strong secrecy guarantees in decentralized, large-scale elections remains challenging. This paper proposes the concept of collectively…

Anonymity is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that hides the identities of both senders and receivers during message transmission over a network. Classical protocols cannot provide information-theoretic security for such task, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Srijani Das , Manasi Patra , Tuhin Paul , Anish Majumdar , Ramij Rahaman